Cotswold Sculpture Park

Venue Cranfield is set within the Cranfield University campus in the mid-Bedfordshire countryside, offering a blend of modern architecture and natural surroundings. The venue benefits from spacious, light-filled rooms with large windows and natural daylight, creating an inviting and professional atmosphere. Its location provides easy access to major transport links including the M1 motorway, London mainline train stations, an airfield, and four international airports, making it convenient for local, national, and international delegates. The venue features a variety of well-equipped spaces including a state-of-the-art auditorium, modern conference rooms, and private dining areas. The Blenheim Suite is a spacious conference room suitable for presentations, exhibitions, weddings, and parties. The Vincent Building Auditorium offers modern amenities on the ground level, including a café bar with Costa Coffee, free Wi-Fi, and complimentary parking. Several rooms benefit from natural light and adjacent breakout rooms, supporting networking and collaborative events. Accommodation is available with 246 en-suite single and double occupancy rooms, allowing delegates to stay close to the event. Overall, Venue Cranfield combines a professional, modern environment with countryside tranquillity, ideal for conferences, weddings, and corporate events with a capacity of up to 250 guests.

Howgills House is a luxury 12-bedroom country house nestled between the Lakes and Dales, offering a tranquil and inspiring setting for team retreats and away days. The individually decorated rooms feature a mix of wet rooms and roll-top baths with showers, accommodating up to 20 guests in comfort. The house boasts period features, wooden floors, underfloor heating, and spacious lounges with countryside views, including a TV lounge with an open fire and a library for cosy relaxation. The venue includes a commercial kitchen and dining area, with options to pre-order home-cooked tray-bakes for convenience. Outdoor amenities such as two hot tubs under a canopy overlooking the countryside, a gas BBQ, and a wood fire pizza oven enhance the experience. Howgills House is ideal for team meetings, retreats, or summer parties, with onsite activities available including duck herding, cocktail making, ghyll scrambling, and clay pigeon shooting. For larger groups, Howgills Barn is available nearby, featuring 8 en-suite bunk rooms set in five private acres of countryside, perfect for retreats and country pursuits. The venue also offers a Corporate Christmas Party package for up to 20 people, including accommodation, a two-course Christmas dinner, and a choice of festive activities such as treasure hunts, orienteering, cocktail making, or race nights. The location is accessible by a short drive from junction 37 of the M6 and within a two-hour train commute from London and around 90 minutes from Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool.

Nestled in the heart of a historic setting, this modern event space was inaugurated in 2018 and is designed to host corporate events with elegance and functionality. Featuring a spacious auditorium that can accommodate up to 158 participants, it is equipped with integrated audiovisual technology to ensure a seamless presentation experience. Additionally, ten meeting rooms spread over two levels offer unparalleled flexibility, available for individual bookings for smaller meetings or combined for collaborative working sessions. Large windows allow abundant natural light to flood in, creating an inspiring atmosphere. The contemporary facilities are complemented by award-winning catering, ensuring that every detail of your event is taken care of with precision. Whether you are organizing a conference, a strategic meeting, or a seminar, this space is designed to meet all your professional needs, combining modern comfort with historic charm.

Seafin Charters offers a distinguished experience aboard one of the largest and most prestigious traditional motor yachts on the South Coast. With its rich history and traditional styling, the yacht provides a luxurious floating venue ideal for both corporate charters and private celebrations. The vessel features a large open seating and viewing area, a stunning varnished saloon, a swimming platform, and modern amenities including AV media systems, a kitchen-galley, and fully flushing toilets. Guests can enjoy a choice of destinations for a Solent cruise, accompanied by a captain and up to four crew members. The yacht accommodates up to 15 guests comfortably, making it suitable for intimate gatherings or special occasions such as birthdays, hen and stag dos, wedding receptions, and client entertainment events. The onboard catering is handled by talented caterers offering a seasonal menu that includes breakfast with coffee, tea, juice, bacon rolls, and brioche; a hot buffet lunch with hand-prepared cold salads, meats, quiches, and locally made bread; and afternoon tea featuring homemade cakes. A variety of drinks including Pimms, wines, beer, and soft drinks are available throughout the day. Additional watersports toys, including two three-person jet skis and a safety boat, add an adventurous element to the experience.

Henge Estate is a sustainably-minded Georgian Manor House nestled in the Wiltshire countryside, offering a unique and luxurious setting for company offsites. The estate combines classic architecture with modern amenities, creating an elegant yet comfortable atmosphere. The manor features five to eleven superking bedrooms with private bathrooms, accommodating up to nineteen guests in individual beds through zip-and-link options. The interior includes a dining room arranged as a boardroom seating up to twenty-four, alongside multiple breakout spaces such as a drawing room, sitting room, and library. A basement games room offers snooker and pool, while the extensive grounds provide a lawn equipped for croquet, cricket, football, giant Jenga, mini golf, and rounders. Additional outdoor facilities include a tennis court, a walled garden, outdoor seating for twenty-four, and a woodland path encircling the estate. Technological provisions include a projector and screen, two 43-inch Smart TVs, excellent WiFi, and printing/scanning facilities. The estate supports a variety of activities on-site, including wine tasting, spa treatments, landscape painting for up to eight people, meditation, sound baths, yoga or pilates sessions, and a Salisbury Plains safari for small groups. Nearby experiences include Thruxton car, kart, and 4x4 racing, as well as pottery workshops. Henge Estate is exclusively hired as a whole property, with a maximum capacity of forty standing guests or twenty-four seated in boardroom style. External catering is permitted, and the venue offers cloakroom, heating, and parking facilities, making it well-suited for immersive corporate retreats in a tranquil rural setting.

Firesyde - Exclusive-Hire Nature Venue, 1 hour from LondonNestled on a private estate among rolling hills on the Surrey/Sussex border, Firesyde is a collection of meticulously designed Wild Lodges, characterful farmhouses and a series of Wild Spaces - an exclusive-hire venue for teams seeking to think clearly, reconnect and be restored by nature, one hour from London.Launched in 2024, Firesyde offers a new vision for corporate retreats: immersive yet deeply comfortable, and led by the belief that nature is the ideal backdrop of breakthrough ideas and team connection. Days are spent between the Piglet Barn - a beautifully converted farm barn with a fireplace centrepiece, 75-inch screen, full AV and flexible seating - and breakout spaces in nature: the Wild Gardens (part of the National Garden Scheme), the Wild Mini Spa with micro sauna and cold plunge, the pergola, and nature trails through an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty bordering the National Trust's Winkworth Arboretum. Evenings gather around the fire - chestnut roasting, candlelit dining, lantern-lit walks to the hilltop for stargazing.CapacityOvernight retreats for 25-35 guests, with day events for up to 200 guests across the grounds, Piglet Barn and Wild Spaces.AccommodationExclusive hire sleeps 25-35 guests in single-occupancy king rooms across the en-suite Wild Lodges (each with fire pit, outdoor dining and private outdoor bath) and our farmhouses - Langhurst, Slades Farmhouses and Gate Street Barn.SpacesAt the heart of the venue sits the Piglet Barn - a converted farm barn with a roaring fireplace, 75-inch screen and AV, shifting effortlessly from strategy sessions to candlelit dining. Around it unfold the Wild Gardens, the Wild Mini Spa with sauna and cold plunge, the pergola with its Camp Kytchen, and lawns or spaces in nature to breakout further.Food & DrinkBreakfast, lunch and dinner built around locally sourced, seasonally inspired menus, tailored to the group. Signature experiences include Guest Chef dinners, campfire feasts and BBQ experiences in the glow of the Piglet Barn fire.ActivitiesFiresyde-led: guided sunrise hikes, yoga on the grass, foraging walks, moonlight lantern walks, evening campfires with artisanal marshmallows, sauna and cold plunge sessions. Partner-led: eBiking, clay shooting and team-building games.FormatsTeam offsites, leadership retreats, strategy days, client entertaining, and large-scale day events. Typical residential bookings run 1.5-4 days midweek.